Introduction

Competing Views of History We have asked how others can ignore history, yet they might have the same question for us.  What many would appreciate, I have thought, is a sort of digest of what we believe and why historians outside of our tradition have disagreed.  You would be hard pressed to find someone who […]

Whose View of History?

Chapter 6: The Reformation. The early Reformers, when they came out of Rome, removed them [musical instruments] as the monuments of idolatry. Luther called the organ an ensign of Baal. Calvin said that instrumental music was not fitter to be adopted into the Christian Church than the incense and the candlestick; … The Church of […]